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This weekend was reading about different countries in Europe because I want to choose 2-3 for a car trip this spring. It's going to be my first car road trip in life. Came across some really interesting places to visit and also information about Spain investment citizenship here. I didn't know that you can buy property and receive a passport of a country in Europe that easy. Seems like people who have enough money are really free in doing a lot of things.

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oh, come on. Do we at least get a new thread for 2021? :lol:

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About to finish:
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In the middle of The Most Dangerous Place on Earth, by Lindsey Lee Johnson:

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I requested that the mods make this post the first in the new thread. I guess that Book Talk mods don't have my sense of humor.

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Finished The Rubber Band by Rex Stout. The third Nero Wolfe book. It has one great gimmick and one that hasn't aged well.

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Read the entire Saxon series for the first time last year just in time for this, the final book, to be released.


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Finished:
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Good book that I put off for a long time (not being in the mood for 800 pages of pandemic horror). Though I would've put it off even longer if I knew that in addition to a pandemic, gun-wielding American fascist terrorists were a huge part of the story too.

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books im reading this month

Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Certain Point of View
Star Wars Courtship of Princess Leia
Star Wars Dark Disciple
Dune Messiah

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I read this a few months ago and liked it, but kinda feel the same. It was borderline spooky how many similarities exist between the book and everything that's happened since publication. This is an interesting article that gets into it.
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/wander...virus-pandemic

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That's from March. The article tries to be optimistic saying at least "a bloodthirsty, alt-right insurgency isn't springing up around all the panic and threatening to overthrow the government". January 2021 says "Hold my beer" :(

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Heh, yeah I found that ironic. But just another thing the book “predicted.”

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I just finished this, and I found it to be compulsively readable. Unfortunately, it didn't really resonate with me. The author seems to have a weird preoccupation with freckles and what various characters' breaths smell like. It's going straight into the "donate" stack.

Up next: Nitro Mountain, by Lee Clay Johnson

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Started Contact by Carl Sagan today. This will be my 2nd time. It's one of my favorite books (and totally destroyed the movie for me) (which I really liked until I read the book :lol: ). I plan on fully enjoying the re-experience of this.

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Finished: The Book Thief

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Finished World War Z and followed up by A river runs through it (did not read the side stories to that one this time around).

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Fools Assasin - Robin Hobb

After close to two years, I've made it through the 16 books in this series. Some were great, some were really good, none made me wish I hadn't ever read them. They all came to a head in the final 2 books, and tied up nicely, if not a bit bittersweet. I'm glad I read them, and would recommend the series to other fantasy fans.

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New Spring - Robert Jordan

I've seen The Wheel of Time series recommended in a lot of places, so I thought I'd try them out.

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Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout. I've been reading a lot of Nero Wolfe books lately, and this is one of the best. It introduces the last member of the regular cast, Lilly Rowan, the woman who is Archie's offstage romantic interest for the rest of the series.


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I don’t know if it really matters, but that prequel was written after much of the series. If you were to read by publication order you’d need to start with Eyes of the World.

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Yeah. I saw that it was also the first of a planned three, so I don't know how important or satisfying it's going to be. I didn't put much research into what the consensus was on reading order, just saw that it was listed first and went for it. It seems short enough that it may not matter.

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I just got back into reading Star Wars Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy for hardcover. this year Im back to reading old Star Wars books. I still have the rest of the X Wing novels to read along with Courtship of Princess Leia, Crystal Star, the Jedi Academy Trilogy and the Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy and then re-reading half of the New Jedi Order series and then reading Fate of the Jedi series for the first time

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This is a book I wanted to like more than I did. I loved The Night Circus, and this certainly had the same tone as that book. And I'm usually a sucker for stories that are about a love of reading. This worked for me in parts, but at other times it turned into a bit of slog (especially in the second half when things were getting "fantastical"). It didn't help that the main character was a mopey introvert that was hard to maintain interest in.

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I'm reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" and WOW. I would not have thought a book about spiders would be so good (Aside from Charlotte's web ;) ) but I am having trouble putting it down at night.

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Reading the first 100 pages of WWF/WWE's The Rock's first auto bio book The Rock Says. Bought it for 80something cents from the downtown thrift store.

I used to have the first two Mick Foley books 18 years ago but they disappeared on me

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Finished this; the villain reminded me somewhat of a hillbilly version of Frank Booth from Blue Velvet. It certainly wasn't bad, but I doubt I'll want to ever re-read it.

Currently reading Universal Harvester, by John Darnielle:

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I finished rereading Contact by Carl Sagan. There's so much I had forgotten from when I read it years ago, and it held my interest as few books do. I loved re-experiencing it! Just for the heck of it, I immediately rewatched the movie (Blu-ray that I picked up a few years ago and saved for this special moment). The book is still vastly better - in my ever-so-humble opinion - but the movie was still enjoyable for what it is. Contact still ranks as (one of?) my favorite books.

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Finished Magpie Murders

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Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout. I've read several Nero Wolfe books in the last couple of months that I haven't listed here. This is another of the best. It has my all-time favorite scene in the Nero Wolfe series. Wolfe questions the kitchen staff of a top 1930s resort. He gets answers because he treats them like honorable men. Everyone else in the book has treated them like second-class citizens because they're Black.

I haven't seen anything like that in another book written in the 1930s.

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I just finished this. Although it's listed as "horror" in the cataloguing info, I found nothing horrific about it...except that I wasted time reading it. It's the third book I've finished so far this year, and the third to go into the "donate" pile.

I'll start a reread of 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King tomorrow. At least I know that I won't be donating THAT one.


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